Note 002

2 SS Obergruppenfuhrer Heissmayer on 23rd April 1941 at the ceremonial opening of a national political educational establishment; see Paetel, Die SS, VJHfZ, 1954, No. 1. Similarly Buchheim, Totalitarian Rule, summarizes the expectations and demands that a totalitarian regime makes on human beings in the formula 'Belief, obedience and efficiency'.


From Chapter 22, Rudolf Höss , Part 3 of The Face Of The Third Reich by J.C. Fest
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